Really? How is that possible? Marcus is doing so many amazing things these days. He's talking like crazy, drooling on everything in sight and is such a social butterfly! When I look at him and think about his birth... I can totally see why the Duggars have 19 children. Could I do it? Not in a million years but I can completely see wanting to have that many. I absolutely love him and have nothing but feelings of joy and happiness when I think about his birth.
Ok, on to updates. He's still not quite loving solids but doing better with the therapy spoons. For now he's still pretty much just nursing which honestly isn't bothering me at all. I know I'll never get this time back. I wasn't sure I'd be able to breastfeed him at all after the reduction so the fact that I can... just makes me want to keep doing it until HE wants to stop. Sure, some nights it's slightly irksome that Adam can't feed him and let me sleep but then when he reaches up and grabs my finger while he's eating... I just melt. Every time.
Jeffrey: Well, we're doing better at kindergarten. We have implemented some tools that really seem to be helping. Sure we have the off day here and there but he really does seem to be getting a lot better. He's decided that he wants to do soccer in the spring (AH!) so it looks like we'll be even busier come that season.
Dillan: Oh, Dillan. It's so hard to watch him struggle. At the same time though, the constant struggle makes the triumphs (small as they may be) that much more exciting. He took 7 bites of food yesterday at therapy. 7!!!!!! That's HUGE!! We recently lost his main speech therapist that has worked with him since we moved here. That was hard. She's doing what she needs to do though and I can understand that. I do get sad though every time we head to speech therapy knowing that we won't see her. D's doing great in the gait trainer as well. The twister cables seem to be really helping! They're going to trial him in the electric chair again soon so that will be exciting as well! (This means a new van but we'll deal with that when the time comes.)
Adam: Well, fortunately it looks like he won't be deploying for a while. Unfortunately, he'll be gone for a week out of each month for a training position. That's ok though, I told him to rack up some serious frequent flier miles!
That's all for now!! I'll TRY to remember to post a 6 month update... Try being the operative word here... LOL!
